A letter on justice and open debate. The online left erupted in betrayal, continues the It wasn’t long before the renunciations began. Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes. If we won’t defend the very thing on which our work depends, we shouldn’t expect the public or the state to defend it for us. Details Related Articles I could go on to list some other atrocities but will leave it there.Bevan and Attlee were progressive capitalist social democrats.Shit I’ve just realised your moniker is Real Labour. Cancel Culture. Whatever the arguments around each particular incident, the result has been to steadily narrow the boundaries of what can be said without the threat of reprisal. They never said they wanted capitalism to fail and be replaced.Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:“A Letter on Justice and Open Debate”: Coatesy responds Get Access to Print and Digital for $23.99. Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. But resistance must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion—which right-wing demagogues are already exploiting. A More Specific Letter on Justice and Open Debate On Tuesday, 153 of the most prominent journalists, authors, and writers, including J. K. Rowling, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Brooks, published an open… The democratic inclusion we want can be achieved only if we speak out against the intolerant climate that has set in on all sides.The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. We welcome responses at letters@harpers.org. Learn more about Serendeputy. But resistance must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion—which right-wing demagogues are already exploiting. By Andrew Coates (at Tendance Coatesy): Cancel Culture.
A Letter on Justice and Open Debate. Harper's Magazine, July 7, 2020. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second. Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes.
Organize the links coming through your Twitter feed by site, topic and tweeter. “Stifling debate”, moral panics, hysteria, controversies, like the TERF wars and the Western (if not US dominated) rows over racism (which ignore present-day Africa to begin with), the nationalist baiting, and the Brexit Party supporting Spiked, are more concerned with “speech and thought” than anything else.Yet it’s hard to deny that restriction on debate, people being howled down, getting into serious difficulties for their opinions, not theirPeople mention that in the US you can get sacked at the drop of the hat – one fall out from these attacks – without any real employment protection.“What all of these rather different cases have in common is that none of the people who were deprived of a livelihood in the name of fighting racism appear to have been guilty of actually perpetuating racism,” It is also the case that this is not an issue confined to the lands directly cited by the authors of the letter, or just a matter of cultural “conformity”.It only takes a minute to look at countries, from the, Russian Federation, China and Hong Kong, to Erdoğan’s Turkey, to see limits on freedom of expression leading to court sentences and prison.Human rights, and expression is one of them, are the bedrock of the left.I do have a serious problem with Chomsky though….and not just because he’s a supporter of Labour Against the Witch-hunt:It’s interesting that Boylan wishes to disassociate from JK Rowling, whose opinions she feels exceed acceptable free speech, whilst keen to stand with Chomsky, who was the main intellectual supporter of the right to publish of Robert Faurisson, the father of Holocaust denial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts.
A Letter on Justice and Open Debate. Harper's Magazine, July 7, 2020. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second. Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes.
Organize the links coming through your Twitter feed by site, topic and tweeter. “Stifling debate”, moral panics, hysteria, controversies, like the TERF wars and the Western (if not US dominated) rows over racism (which ignore present-day Africa to begin with), the nationalist baiting, and the Brexit Party supporting Spiked, are more concerned with “speech and thought” than anything else.Yet it’s hard to deny that restriction on debate, people being howled down, getting into serious difficulties for their opinions, not theirPeople mention that in the US you can get sacked at the drop of the hat – one fall out from these attacks – without any real employment protection.“What all of these rather different cases have in common is that none of the people who were deprived of a livelihood in the name of fighting racism appear to have been guilty of actually perpetuating racism,” It is also the case that this is not an issue confined to the lands directly cited by the authors of the letter, or just a matter of cultural “conformity”.It only takes a minute to look at countries, from the, Russian Federation, China and Hong Kong, to Erdoğan’s Turkey, to see limits on freedom of expression leading to court sentences and prison.Human rights, and expression is one of them, are the bedrock of the left.I do have a serious problem with Chomsky though….and not just because he’s a supporter of Labour Against the Witch-hunt:It’s interesting that Boylan wishes to disassociate from JK Rowling, whose opinions she feels exceed acceptable free speech, whilst keen to stand with Chomsky, who was the main intellectual supporter of the right to publish of Robert Faurisson, the father of Holocaust denial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts.